researched the most appropriate way to deal with small cell sizes in complex sample survey data: the rao-scott chi-square test. still can't compare differences between means, but it's a start.

received my italian passport after 2.5 years of bureaucracy-wrangling. move over berlusconi.found an article supporting my theory that bangladesh will be the largest public health emergency ever. the tenth most densely-populated country (all others in the top 20 are city-states!), completely at sea-level. raise the oceans a few meters and the country is underwater faster than manhattan.

scored some homemade green chili bean stew with wine bottle-rolled tortillas at ted's place.maximized the viewing area on my netbook.